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Canadian wildfire smoke causes air quality alert in South Dakota

May 13, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️  A May 2023 view of wildfire smoke from Canada cloaking the Black Hills. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight, via EcoFlight) The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources issued an air quality alert Monday for areas of South Dakota where smoke from wildfires in Canada has settled.The alert is in effect through ...
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These are the 10 reasons Utahns can save the Great Salt Lake, a state official says

May 11, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Speakers at a three-day forum expressed hope for the lake’s future, and listed the things Utahns can do that others haven’t to protect and sustain the Great Salt Lake. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fremont Island during a flyover of the Great Salt Lake with EcoFlight on Tuesday, April 9, ...
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Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won’t Protect it, Should Biden Step in?

May 5, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Local coalitions are urging the president to meet his administration’s conservation goals and fight the climate and biodiversity crises by creating new national monuments. But even some locals who want to see such lands saved don’t want them protected like that. OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Drive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, ...
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Protect the Dolores – the other side

May 2, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ NATURITA, Colo. (KREX) – Residents of the small town of Naturita gave Sen. John Hickenlooper an ear full of concerns about the Dolores National Monument proposal.Now let’s hand the microphone to the advocates.Scott Braden, project director of Colorado Wildlands, tells Western Slope Now Protect the Dolores, a coalition of conservation, community and business groups, ...
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Biden Signs Proclamation Expanding San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

May 2, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the San Gabriel Mountains from an EcoFlight tour of the terrain, April 17. (SFVS/el Sol Photo/Semantha Raquel Norris) SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS (CNS) – The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument will be expanded in a proclamation signed by President Joe Biden today. It is part of the White House ...
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Gov. Jared Polis, lawmakers unveil new oil and gas fee in climate deal aimed at defusing ballot war

April 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Agreement calls for Colorado Democrats to abandon four bills aimed at tightening industry regulations Oil and gas infrastructure is seen on the Roan Plateau in far western Colorado. (Courtesy of EcoFlight) Click the link to read the article on The Denver Post website (Seth Klamann and Nick Coltrain). Here’s an excerpt:April 29. 2024Leading Colorado ...
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Nature for All x EcoFlight over the San Gabriel Mountains

April 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Stretching from the San Fernando Valley to the San Gabriel Valley, the San Gabriel Mountains are the defining landscape for many Angelenos. The Angeles National Forest is one of the most frequented recreational outdoor spaces for Angelenos, with over 4.6 million visitors annually. Northeast San Fernando Valley residents have long depended on ...
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Environmental groups ask judge to keep Great Salt Lake lawsuit alive

April 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Great Salt Lake dropped to a historic low in 2022 because of water diversion, drought and impacts from climate change. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Stansbury Island during a flyover of the Great Salt Lake with EcoFlight on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. A coalition of environmental groups is asking ...
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Flying Over the Great Bend of the Gila with EcoFlight

April 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight is a nonprofit organization that provides an aerial perspective on environmental campaigns to educate and advocate for remaining wildlands, wildlife habitats, and culturally sensitive landscapes throughout the Western U.S.Community leaders, journalists, and coalition partners from Arizona recently experienced an EcoFlight over the proposed Great Bend of the Gila National Monument.Despite its ...
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Hickenlooper monument listening sessions postponed

April 26, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post Christopher Tomlinson/The Daily SentinelThis file photo shows the Dolores River during a flight provided by the nonprofit group EcoFlight. Christopher Tomlinson Due to a change in the U.S. Senate’s vote schedule, Sen. John Hickenlooper has postponed two listening sessions to hear public input on a proposal to create a national monument in the Dolores ...
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